The right brings a coup de grass

The door has been opened for cannabis to be legalised across the US, and it’s thanks to conservatives, writes Andrew Sullivan

Every country and every culture has its hypocrisies. But the vast, sprawling
cultural and social churn of America abounds in them. Americans live in a
world of sin and salvation.

One of the most striking hypocrisies I have encountered is over cannabis. The
plant is among America’s biggest cash crops. It is a rite of passage for a
vast plurality of college students.

Every recent president has smoked pot, although the full extent of Bill
Clinton’s inhalation remains a Jesuitical mystery.

The current president — as any image search on Google will show you — has a
photograph from his days in the Choom Gang at his high school, where he is
drawing joyfully on a joint.

David Maraniss’s new biography of Barack Obama has details of his pothead
past, revealing that Obama was not succumbing to peer pressure; he was the
peer pressure. He initiated a term called “TA” in his